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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
haggle
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
over
▪ A great deal of time was spent haggling over prices for specific tasks.
▪ The politicians, it seems, are still haggling over the emblem on the cover.
▪ Omegna Market, at the northern end of Lake Orta, is a must if you want to haggle over souvenirs.
▪ But it is still haggling over details.
■ NOUN
price
▪ Bargaining, or haggling over a price, is still expected in most establishments.
▪ A great deal of time was spent haggling over prices for specific tasks.
▪ There was no haggling over price and no salesman to deal with.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ If you go to a street market, you'd better be prepared to haggle.
▪ My mother used to spend hours haggling with the market traders.
▪ The passenger haggled over the fare before she got into the taxi.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But this man wasn't haggling with him.
▪ Go to the best studio your budget will allow and remember that studios will often drop their price if you haggle.
▪ Merchants haggled in New York and Philadelphia.
▪ My colleague was not prepared to haggle.
▪ Otherwise they will have barely tried life under Maastricht before their mandarins must start haggling again.
▪ The haggling among scientists continued, and seeing the project in disarray, Congress eventually cut off financing for the Mohole Project.
▪ We came to the rooming house where Dean haggled with Camille.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Haggle

Haggle \Hag"gle\ (h[a^]g"g'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Haggled (-g'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Haggling (-gl[i^]ng).] [Freq. of Scot. hag, E. hack. See Hack to cut.] To cut roughly or hack; to cut into small pieces; to notch or cut in an unskillful manner; to make rough or mangle by cutting; as, a boy haggles a stick of wood.

Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped.
--Shak.

Haggle

Haggle \Hag"gle\, n. The act or process of haggling.
--Carlyle.

Haggle

Haggle \Hag"gle\, v. i. To be difficult in bargaining; to stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.

Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood.
--Walpole.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
haggle

1570s, "to cut unevenly" (implied in haggler), frequentative of haggen "to chop" (see hack (v.1)). Sense of "argue about price" first recorded c.1600, probably from notion of chopping away. Related: Haggled; haggling.

Wiktionary
haggle

vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller. 2 (context transitive English) To hack (cut crudely) 3 To stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.

WordNet
haggle

n. an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) [syn: haggling, wrangle, wrangling]

haggle

v. wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); "Let's not haggle over a few dollars" [syn: higgle, chaffer, huckster]

Wikipedia
Haggle

Haggle may refer to

  • Haggle (game), a party game
  • Haggle (architecture) an autonomic networking architecture
  • Bargaining, English word meaning to haggle or to bargain
Haggle (game)

Haggle is a party game designed by Sid Sackson and intended for a large number of players. It is rather complex and involved compared to many party games and, as a result, is often played only at gatherings of people who are known to enjoy gaming at other times.

At the start of the game, each player receives a secret, random, collection of plain, colored cards plus one or more slips, each one explaining one of the many valuation rules. These rules are made up by the game organiser before the game is played, and are not told to the players. Instead, different players will have different sets of knowledge about the rules. (Typical rules might be "red cards are worth two points each" or "each yellow card doubles your final score".)

The objective is for each player to accumulate the highest scoring collection of cards that they can. The players are given a particular amount of time - anything from twenty minutes to the whole party - to mix with each other. Players may trade cards on any terms they choose. They may also trade information about the rules. Before the end of the game, each player is required to hand in their final card collection in an envelope. The referee, who knows all the rules, then scores each hand and the player with the highest score wins. Typically, the winner will get a small prize of some type.

The game very strongly encourages people to mix with each other, but is rather complex for some players. Care must also be taken to ensure that the starting hands are similar in value.

Haggle is one of the games presented in Sackson's book, A Gamut of Games.

Haggle (architecture)

Haggle is a European Union funded project in Situated and Autonomic Communications.

Haggle is an autonomic networking architecture designed to enable communication when network connectivity is intermittent. In particular, Haggle exploits opportunistic contacts between mobile users to deliver data to the destination.

Usage examples of "haggle".

It was the last section of the reports that Baggy and I had haggled over.

Growls, bleets, chitterings, cheeps, honks and haggling created an ear-curdling din.

Goodman Renkin always haggled at length for the best price for his sheep, and it looked like his Goodwife would do no less.

Geoff had seen uncountable instances of bartering and haggling over every conceivable item.

It was not much larger than a small eggshell, and while it was truly a beautiful object it hardly seemed worth such spirited haggling, let alone dying for.

After two months on the Nixon Impeachment Trail, my nerves were worn raw from the constant haggling and frustrated hostility of all those useless, early morning White House press briefings and long, sweaty afternoons pacing aimlessly around the corridors of the Rayburn Office Building on Capitol Hill, waiting for crumbs of wisdom from any two or three of those 38 luckless congressmen on the House Judiciary Committee hearing evidence on the possible impeachment of Richard Nixon.

One night, after long haggling, he bought several mason jars full of home whiskey, which he drank while driving at high speed through the Beverly Hills area.

After a lot of haggling and argument, we eventually settled on a band master.

After some argument, haggling, and suggestions of violence, he produced bow, quiver, and arrows for eight pence.

The place was so crowded that the haggling was almost an orgy, and dizzy Peregrine almost blacked out.

Jahdo as viciously unjust that these people would be haggling over the ordinary details of their lives, something as petty as a gambling debt, probably, while they were dragging him off to slavery.

It was double the price he should have paid, but the searchers had ignored a man haggling with a street seller, and escaping detection was worth the price a hundred times over.

Laurie spent the better part of an hour haggling with the horse trader for two of his better mounts.

While the haggling got underway in earnest, Primilla was pondering the size of the loan.

He hurried through the crowd, dodging around clumps of haggling tradesmen and farmers, at one point ducking through a display of melons and almost toppling a pyramid of the great pale fruit.